Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.[806:1]

Footnotes

[806:1] This saying, "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu avec elle," is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the "Autobiography and Letters" of Mrs. Piozzi.

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JUNOT, DUC D'ABRANTES.  1771-1813.

I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.[806:2]

(When asked as to his ancestry.)

Footnotes

[806:2] See Plutarch, page [733].

Curtius Rufus seems to me to be descended from himself. (A saying of Tiberius).—Tacitus: Annals, book xi. c. xxi. 16.